Many people wondered why the senator and former doctor posted info supporting the vaccine while voting to confirm an anti-vaxxer to run HHS.
The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board published an op-ed Monday calling on Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to set aside his anti-vaccine activist positions in light of the nearly 50 measles cases that have been confirmed among mostly unvaccinated children in Texas.
A measles outbreak in Texas prompted the conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board to issue an urgent plea to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist and the nation's new secretary of Health and Human Services.
Will RFK Jr., America's foremost vaccine skeptic, mobilize the shots to stop the worst measles outbreak in Texas in decades?
Dr. Michael Osterholm, Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota joins Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House to discuss the health risks that are facing this nations as a result of a surge in measles cases,
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Measles Outbreaks in Texas and New Mexico Sicken Nearly 100 People
Measles outbreak sickens nearly 100 in New Mexico and Texas
The deadly illness has sickened dozens of people in west Texas and New Mexico since late January. The Texas Department of State Health Services confirmed 90 cases of measles, including at least 77 children. Sixteen people have been hospitalized as a result.
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RFK Jr. and the Measles Outbreak
Now he’s HHS secretary, not a gadfly, as unvaxxed children are hospitalized.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been confirmed as the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Do not be surprised when (if)
Kennedy Jr. has done to scare Americans away from vaccines, it seems inevitable that a runaway measles epidemic will ensue. Dozens of cases in rural West Texas might already be the start of one. As Kennedy takes office as secretary of health and human services,
Measles was declared eliminated in the United States in the year 2000 due to an effective vaccine. But a quarter century later the disease is still here and causing sickness and hospitalizations
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They began to collect throat swabs from patients. They took a sample from the mouth of 11-year-old schoolboy David Edmonston and used it to cultivate and isolate the virus.Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning.
Over the past month, the virus has spread in areas with low vaccination rates, and most of those affected are minors.
Twenty-five years ago, the World Health Organization and U.S. officials celebrated a WHO declaration that a highly successful
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